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Coonabarabran, town, east-central New South Wales, Australia. It lies along the Castlereagh River, near the Pilliga Scrub district. Coonabarabran was surveyed in 1859 and gazetted a shire in 1906, its name derived from an Aboriginal word meaning “inquisitive person.” Lying along the Newell and Oxley highways, with regular air and rail services to Sydney (210 miles [340 km] southeast), the town serves an area of wheat and sheep farming, horticulture and viticulture, lumbering (cypress pine), and diatomite mining. It is also a gateway to the Warrumbungle Range and Warrumbungle National Park, which lie to the west. One of the world’s ...(100 of 118 words)

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